About the series

Elements in the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard includes titles that are organized around particular themes, and others that are more historically organized – about specific Kierkegaardian texts.  Both well-established and emerging scholars contribute to this series, combining decades of expertise with new and different perspectives.  Titles in this series are written in a manner that is accessible to the beginner, while at the same time being rigorous enough to be of interest to specialists. Academic areas represented in this Elements series include philosophy first and foremost, but also religion and theology as well as psychology and literary studies.  Topics considered here are quite varied but prominently include anxiety, love, subjectivity, epistemology, phenomenology, aesthetics, religion, selfhood, virtue, despair, ethics, and meaning.  These Elements will be relevant to mental health practitioners, pastors and priests, philosophers of mind, moral philosophers, anthropologists, theorists of technology, students of the history of philosophy, and interpreters of culture, among many others. 

About the editor

Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College and past President of the Søren Kierkegaard Society (for calendar years 2013-2014).  He has published two books and over twenty essays on Kierkegaard’s work, including Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity (2005) and Kierkegaard’s ‘Concluding Unscientific Postscript’: A Critical Guide (2010), along with the co-edited Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel (2025).  He has contributed to each of the Cambridge Critical Guides on Kierkegaard’s writings, and has dozens of other philosophical and poetic publications.  He is also an Editorial Board Member for New Kierkegaard Research and founding Book Series Co-Editor for Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry.  His other recent books include Love, Subjectivity, and Truth (2023). 

Contact: rafurtak@alumni.uchicago.edu